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"The undergraduates are practically unanimous in the opinion that President Angell's views are absurd!"--"Harvard, Radcliffe, and Wellesley had plenty to say on the subject of college week ends, and most of it was neither complimentary or kind to President James Rowland Angell."
Week-end trips to New York and to women's colleges are condemned as "harmful, physically and mentally," to Yale students by Pres. James Rowland Angell.
In his address of welcome to the student body, Pres. Angell said that week-ends spent in New York, Northhampton, Poughkeepsie and other cities caused the students to return to the university in bad physical condition.
Pres. Angell said the week-end exodus from New Haven had become a serious matter, adding that "this extension work for Yale" should be curtailed. He said week-ends should be spent at New Haven making social contacts, an essential part of the college career.
Pres. Angell also said he was opposed to the plan suggested by faculty members for having students obtain special permission to leave town for the week-ends, and having them register before leaving and upon their return. Unless conditions were remedied, he added, some such plan might be adopted. --Boston...